Interesting article about CPU scaling with 4870x2.

[pastymuncher]

There's a very interesting article over at Legion Hardware about CPU scaling with ATI's 4870x2. To get the most out of these cards it would appear that you need a clocked Intel quad. Company of Heroes was a big shock with a quad outscoring a dual by a large margin yet Supreme Commander was actually just as good on a dual as on a quad. This on a game that is supposed to make use of all four cores of a quad.

If you have a AMD X2 cpu then you may as well forget a 4870x2 as they are way behind all the other cpu's tested. The Phenoms do quite well though.

Read the article here.

 

[gurusan]

wtf is up with the COH results? They can't be right at all

 

[pastymuncher]

wtf is up with the COH results? They can't be right at all

Strange are'nt they? That's what i thought when i saw them.

 

[Happy]

Link doesn't work for me I get an OpenDNS screen

Oh works now

 

[Strife212]

Well I need a better CPU ._.

 

[Greebo]

wtf is up with the COH results? They can't be right at all

Not unless that version of COH fully supports quad core processors.

 

[gurusan]

even if it did.... 100% cpu scaling :/

 

[Greebo]

even if it did.... 100% cpu scaling :/

Not totally unfeasible. If ATI can do 100% scaling in COD with its xfire, I'm sure a well written program could do 100% scaling with double the cpu cores.

However, its the first I have heard that COH is fully quad core supported.

 

[Final8y]

Wow! CPU bottle necking the 4870X2 even at 1920x1200 8XAA 16AF & DX10...what a beast.

I would say that AMD X2 at 3Ghz would be a minimum for this card at that res & keep things above 60fps.

 

[somewhatdamaged]

The COH results seem strange to me

When i do the in game benchmark (with vsync turned off)
I get 110 maximum, 49 average and 20 minimum

this is with 2 x 4870x2's and a 3.4Ghz Q6600 (2560x1600 8xAA)

These reviews never seem to specify what the minimum frame rate it, which for me is often more important than the maximum

 

[Greebo]

Interestling enough its not the first time such a massive performance gain has been seen from 45nm quad cores:

http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/cpu/article.php/3261_3712036__10

 

[fornowagain]

On the subject of scaling.

Geforce GTX280 & Radeon HD4870X2 AA Scaling with XP & Vista

 

[TheRealDeal]

Looks like i should go vista now using an ati card as you gain frames. Not to bad for nvidia either only -1.6 on the frames not as bad compared with a year ago but good work to both teams vista looks much better for games these days. Nice find mate.

 

[Final8y]

On the subject of scaling.

Geforce GTX280 & Radeon HD4870X2 AA Scaling with XP & Vista

That deserved its own thread seeing XP v vista for gaming is a sticking point.
So i made one.